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OLOL Student Named Newman Civic Fellow
Campus Compact has honored over one hundred student leaders from across the U.S.
as 2014 Newman Civic Fellows. Among the honorees is Jeffery Green, a nursing student
at Our Lady of the Lake College. The Newman Civic Fellows Awards recognize inspiring
college student leaders who are working to find solutions for challenges facing their
communities.
Jeffery Green is a student leader dedicated to civic engagement on all fronts. He has
been a leader and student organizer for several Habitat for Humanity builds in North Baton
Rouge for the Our Lady of the Lake College, and is very active with the campus Student
Ambassador group. Green has helped with countless community health service projects
through the Student Nurse Association organization and has become increasingly involved
with non-profit organizations across the Baton Rouge area.
As the father of five children, Green is a strong advocate for the needs of children. His
daughter was faced with many heart-health issues during her early life, and consequently
Green has worked to raise funds for children’s healthcare priorities as well as for research
for the kids at St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis. He has helped with “adopting” eight small
children who attend the Respire Haiti School, a school established by a young woman from
Lafayette, Louisiana to help indigent children and restaveks in Gressier, Haiti. During this
past academic year Green has been working with the Our Lady of the Lake College Student
Government Association to plan a weekend mission trip to Respire Haiti to assist with a
future construction project.
Top
Jeff Green, Newman Civic
Fellow; Dr. Tina Holland, Our Lady
of the Lake College President;
Rachel Green, Jeff’s wife
Above
Jeff Green volunteering
to help build a playground at
Wildwood Elementary School
in East Baton Rouge Parish